Deep Southern Gardening Mystery #5
I’m always looking around at plants and flowers in people’s yards when I drive around town. I see these in the older neighborhoods in Montgomery, but I never see them for sale in any garden store or home stores. (That’s how I sometimes figure out plant names: by finding them at the garden store where they have a tag.) No one can seem to tell me what these red flowers are. This picture comes from the ones growing on my father-in-law’s fence.
The clusters of vines look a lot like wisteria. About all I know is that they bloom in summer, and the flowers look like something a hummingbird would be attracted to.
Does anyone know what they are?


Trumpet vines are not the best of garden plants. They really spread once established and the aerial roots can really tear up siding on a house.
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Thanks, John!
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